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Sinnad

Can a CBB-licensed card-processing and payment infrastructure subsidiary of Bahrain's national financial network become the dominant outsourced card programme manager for banks across the MEA region?

HQManama, Kingdom of Bahrain
IndustryInfrastructure / Payments
The story

SINNAD was established as a payments and card-processing infrastructure company in Bahrain, operating as a subsidiary of The BENEFIT Company. It is licensed by the Central Bank of Bahrain and has positioned itself as an end-to-end card management and transaction processing outsourcer for banks across the MEA region. Its embedded finance angle is the outsourced card programme management model — enabling financial institutions to launch and operate Debit, Credit, Prepaid, and instalment card products without building their own processing infrastructure.

Last 12 months
2024-03
Product timeline
2024
Signed strategic partnership with Bede (a Shariah-compliant fintech mobile app, subsidiary of Zain Bahrain Fintech Company) to provide card processing and payment technology.· acquisition
Regulated entities
Ancillary Service Provider — Card Processing and Payment Service Provider
Bahrain (CBB)
SINNAD
The stack
Payments / PSP
SINNAD Card Processing (self-operated)Compass Plus (tokenisation services)
Card issuing
Compass Plus
Lending
Instalment CardsRevolving credit managementConsumer finance instalment schemesScoring and collections features
Accounting gap: none